Toyota is expected to report over one billion dollars in operating profit for the April-June period, recovering from a massive loss, a media report says.

Toyota 'to report sharp recovery'

Japanese auto giant Toyota is expected to report over one billion dollars in operating profit for the April-June period, recovering from the previous year's massive loss, a business paper says.

In the quarter, the Toyota group - including Hino Motors and Daihatsu Motor - appears to have sold up to 1.9 million units, about 30 per cent more than a year earlier, the Nikkei business daily said on Sunday without citing sources.

Its operating profit is expected to reach about Y100 billion ($A1.29 billion), recovering sharply from the previous year's loss of Y194.8 billion ($A2.51 billion), thanks to higher sales in Asia and the Middle East, it said.

In Japan, Toyota enjoyed robust sales of the Prius while sales in North America were also recovering thanks to incentives, although its operations were still feeling the effect of recalls, it said.

In addition to the expanded sales mainly in emerging nations and resource-rich countries, the company offset the effect of the strong yen through streamlining, it said.

But Toyota was unlikely to upgrade its full-year forecasts, in part because of uncertainty over Western economies, the paper said.

Toyota has pulled about 10 million vehicles worldwide since late last year over massive safety recalls.

Despite the impact of the recalls, the automaker expects operating profit to rise nearly 90 per cent to Y280 billion ($A3.6 billion) in the year to March 2011.